On Wednesday Barcelona dawned in institutional shock assuming that Messi was lost definitely and implying that the best solution to the burofax was trying to negotiate with the star one agreed exit. But late at night the strategy from the club turned in search of a challenge the player, to which explanations will be required while still being offered a leading role in Koeman's project. Here begins a battle in which Bartomeu is going to get hard with your captain.
The strategy began to cook in a emergency meeting at the Camp Nou at ten in the morning. Was summoned a crisis cabinet to which the president went Bartomeu, the CEO Òscar Grau, the manager Javier Bordas and the technical secretary Ramon Planes. They arrived at the appointment with morale on the ground, giving up the player and agreeing that the only possible exit before Leo's announcement was agree a dignified departure, but something changed in the course of the day that led Barça to challenge the player.
From the search for the pact it was passed to the enumeration of a series of conditions to the Argentine who are the following.
From the outset, Barça remains firm in that Messi does not leave and that the club considers him as the pillar of the new project, as it was communicated in the return burofax to which the soccer player's lawyers sent.
This position was publicly expressed in the voice of the technical secretary Ramon Planes, which in the Trincao presentation explained that “We do not contemplate any exit of Messi contractual. We want Leo to stay. I am convinced that the future that comes to us is positive. Messi has given a lot to Barça and Barça to Leo. We have to fight so that marriage Barça and Messi go ahead. We have spent many hours internally to find the best solution. “
The club second premise is that the player has a contract and if you want to leave you must pay a clause of 700 million adding that in no case is it contemplated to grant him the letter of freedom. To that is added the administrative silence. The club only expressed itself via Plans and does not plan to do so before Leo explains himself. Bartomeu I had planned to speak with the player yesterday (ruling out going to his home) to ask you to offer explanations to the partners. They consider from the box that he has created a crisis and that institutionally there will be no reaction until the player publicly states his reasons for leaving.
Also, remind you that a pulse like the one in the star has already been attacked by Neymar in the opposite direction a year ago and it didn't work out.
He Barça does not give up in a strategy that even from within the entity is interpreted as the search for a pact but that makes it clear that Barça is not willing for Messi to leave as if nothing had happened. The club challenges the crack.